Howard Fields

Howard Fields is a semi-retired journalist in Lahaina on Maui and author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, W.W. Norton, 1978, about the Nixon impeachment effort. He spent a year covering the story as a UPI reporter early in a 35-year career in Washington, DC. He left UPI to become a freelancer, working as a Washington reporter/writer/ editor/stringer/bureau chief for several newspapers, magazines, newsletters and Web sites. He moved from Virginia to Lahaina in 2003 and specializes in manuscript-editing for would-be book authors and publishing his own Setting the Record Straight e-book series of comment on current issues.